What are you all up to

Another fine, warm day with the temperature around 17C all the time. A bit of a slow tow to our present site due to roadworks around Scarborough. The site has recently been upgraded from a grass non-EHU one to having large Hardstanding pitches with hookups, and it has been well laid out with views over the fields to the Howardian Hills. No wonder it is full, 4 caravans and 1 M/H, at a site fee under £20 pn. I took a walk up into the village in the afternoon, however there was not a lot of interest apart from the church, which was not open unfortunately, and an interesting garden feature. 

R&R, we can't be far from your "go to" CS so will have a look at it later in our visit. Hope all goes well with the van's service.

Thanks, Richard, should we get there l will do just that.

It was much duller day but still warm and without any rain. We had a couple of gentle walks along Troutsdale Brow before and after lunch.

Here are the photos I somehow missed posting last night, it being too late to post due to outage when I realised they were not there!

We have had some very worrying news this week.  After waiting almost 2 years following a referral by our optician, OH was finally given an appointment at the eye clinic in Glasgow, and has been told she has the beginnings of Glaucoma in both eyes.

This is something she has to tell the DVLA about, and they might decide to take away her driving licence.

The Doc she saw said that in her opinion OH was OK to continue driving, but she is not the one making the decision. 

OH has not noticed any problems when driving, she is a good but cautious driver, always has been. 

She is however struggling with her mobility due to dodgy knees, though that does not affect her driving, just her ability to walk very far. 

Living where we do, having lost our local supermarket, and not having much of a bus service, certainly not one that takes you within easy walking distance of a supermarket,  a car is pretty much essential, certainly essential to have a decent level of independence. 

I can, and do, drive when we go out together, but sometimes we need to go our separate ways, especially when the grandchildren need to be taken care of. 

And to get to DD’s house, to look after our grandchildren, a car is essential. 

She has been given eye drops to reduce the pressure in her eyes, hopefully that will work, laser treatment and surgery are also available, but who knows what the DVLA will decide, it is very worrying.

Sorry to hear of your OH's glaucoma, Kjell, and hope that the DVLA allow her to continue driving.

It has been a fine sunny day after a clear sky last night which enabled a great view of the Milky Way. We followed the recommendation from heddlo & tda and visited St Gregory's Minster at Kirkdale. We were fortunate to be there when the organist was practicing, which leant a grand atmosphere to the Saxon church. Then followed a very pleasant walk through the woods up the dale. After lunch we drove back to Appleton-le-Moors, a lovely little village to see the remains of two roadside crosses and the church, built in the 1860s in the French Gothic Revival style. 

Sorry to hear about your OH's eye problems - hope it all gets sorted out OK and she can keep her licence.  I dread to think what I would do if I couldn't drive anymore.

All this talk about leaves makes me smile - I was walking Meg in the park, yesterday and there was this town council guy with a leaf blower, trying to blow wet leaves off wet grass Needless to say, he wasn't having much impact and everything that he had cleared yesterday was covered again this morning. All seems a bit pointless to me 

Thanks all for the good wishes for OH, she is remaining optimistic that all will go well.  As Richard said, not being able to drive would be a big worry.

We are now nearing the date, 8th November, when the sale of DD’s flat should be finalised.  We were down there yesterday removing some stuff from the outside store room.

  None of it is anything to do with any of the residents as none of them even know about it.  So DD is trying to dispose of everything so the factors (managing agents) do not ask anyone for any money for clearing the room.  Some neighbouring shop owners have broken into the room and left stuff in it,  but strangely do not want to claim it!

There are still a few bits and pieces of interest……wood etc…..so we are going back there tomorrow to pick that up, fix a few things, and for the boys to say bye bye to the flat.   DD says it will be strange not to have it any more, she has owned it for 21 years, but will be glad not to have the extra responsibility.

No doubt the money from the sale will be useful to them too.   And we will get back the money we loaned her towards it.   Need  to find a decent account to place the money in.

It has been dull all day but with a temperature of around 12C not cold. We had a comfortable tow across N Yorkshire, from east, Pickering, to west, Ingleton, to yet another new CL for us. It is fairly basic, no toilet, but with easy access, H/S and EHU at £17:50 pn it suits us fine.

I have just done a tot up and we have now passed 550 different sites during our caravanning years. This total doesn't include all the rally sites we visited when we caravanned  with our children. Hope to add to this total before the year is out.